The Big Bonk

February 10

Good morning, friend.

If you’re reading this, you’re alive.

This is important for several reasons:

First, it would be quite awkward to spend all this time writing letters to dead people. Thank you for not putting anyone else through that.

Second, this is important because it indicates you have managed to survive every bad possible thing that has happened in the news since the day you were born.

Your current emotional range for “good and bad circumstances” is informed by your own experience, the way you’ve lived your life in its current entirety. And you’re still here kicking it—largely in one piece. Which means you have, in a sense, already survived the worst possible things you yourself can imagine.

Every scraped knee, every bruised elbow, every bleeding nose. You’ve endured them all with fortitude and, occasionally, grace.

Of course, we all know there’s a day when you’ll take a hit you can’t walk away from. Could be 50 years in the future, could be a garbage truck hurtling towards your living room window right now.

It’s worth thinking about. Worth reflecting on. But in a roundabout way, it’s not really worth worrying about. Because you’ve endured every scrape and scuffle life has ever thrown at you.

So either you’ll be able to handle the next thing life throws at you, or, well, it’s not like you’ll have to worry about it.

Morning Reading is a daily email to help center yourself, reflect, and prepare for the day. It’s sent with love from your friend, Zach in Austin, Texas. He even drew the logo himself.

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